SUPREME COURT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

■» , (Per Press Association.) TIMAfRU* this day. ine {supreme Coiiirt criminal session opened yesterday before Mr Justice Ilenniston, who congratulated the grand jury on the lightness and .comparative unimportance of the calendar. Yesterday two cases were disposed of, both accused being acquitted. One man was charged with breaking into and stealing, from the railway parcels >dffice' at Timaru, the .evidence, said the judgi, amounting merely to strong suspicion. In the other case a man was accused of wilfully making a false declaration to the Royal Insurance Company of the value of goods destroyed by fire at Mount * i Somersi His explanation was that the i statement was made up by his wif- 1 , | who had bought the articles, and he signed without lookang at it. Her hit totted up to £466, and his policy vrr.a for £175. The local agent of the com- , pany valued the goods at £220 before the fire, and he saw no reason to reduce it now. [ INtfERCAKGILL, this day. I The re-trial of Frank James McFar- J lane, charged with with intent, < in which case a previous jury disagreed, t was proceeded ' with 'yesterday. The . jury, after a retirement of two and a ' half hours, returned a verdict of guilty, 1 and prisoner was sentenced to throe i

years' hard labor